Word: goneness
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...Saturday afternoon. Jack had gone home to spend Sunday, and the rest of our set were away too. The Yard looked dismally deserted as I gazed across it from my window. I was fast succumbing to an attack of ennui. I had the papers; but somehow the war in the East had no longer any interest for me, and I was quite mixed in regard to the situation in France. "Dear me!" I exclaimed, "I 'll wait till I am a Sophomore and elect political economy, and meanwhile I 'll leave the Russian bear to hibernate at Plevna...
...part of Class Day as long as there has been a Class Day. Every one knows what to expect of them, and year after year it has been impossible to supply with tickets all those who would like them. The rush at the Chapel door, after the Seniors have gone in, has become historic. Surely it cannot be the general opinion that this part of the day only bores...
...subscription-paper is passed around, the club appear in their uniforms, or the newspapers chronicle the result of the game; and soon another subscription-paper is circulated to pay a deficit. Now what the College wants is a full statement of where every cent of the money subscribed has gone; and this we have a right to expect. While we have no word of complaint to utter against a single club, we think it eminently just that every treasurer should keep, for the benefit of those who help to support that club, a careful account of every expenditure, and that...
...REVOLUTION has been effected this term in the game of which, above all other games, Rugbeians are most conservative. A fiat has gone forth that in future all shins, unless the ball is between them, are to be inviolate. Deprived of its most distinctive feature, Rugby foot-ball exists no longer in the school that gave it its title and its birth. Of the expediency of the change we can venture no fixed opinion. It has probably been found necessary to benefit the school at the expense of the game. Of its unpopularity there can be no question; and there...
...yours down,' said the city editor as the new man came in with a column where a stick only was required. 'Do you desire a judicious elimination of the superfluous phraseology?' mildly returned the Harvard man. 'No! Boil it down!' thundered the city ed. The new man is gone now, - gone back to Boston. He says there ain't 'cultuah' enough in Philadelphia...